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My beloved and precious Mr. Zalman Shazr, who grows and sprouts forth from the drops of Gan Eden of the Tzaddik, who is the root of the soul of the Messiah, who can raise and renew the entire world for good, to attach and to draw everyone to Hashem Yisborach. Even those very distant from the holiness of Israel, in the worst estrangement. Peace and all good for length of days.
My beloved brother, my soul and heart, our love is like that of David and Jonathan and will never be nullified, since it is not dependent on something ephemeral. Look well and think about the great kindness and awesome salvation that Hashem Yisborach has done for us, who has opened our eyes to see the point of one truth that has never before been revealed in history. That is no longer possible to conceal from our minds in any way. How sweet are the words of our Sages of blessed memory, when they alluded in their words to Rabbeinu: "Halacha [Jewish Law] is like Rav Nachman. And the Halacha is like Rav Nachman. And the Halacha is like Nachmani."
The main way for salvation to come is only through faith. And faith is measured according to the Leader of the generation. One must fill up the faith with the illumination of the Tzaddik, who is the generalization of the Seven Shepards. For he shepards the faith to repair it and to complete it. And the whole essence of the faith of Israel he draws to the generation. And it is impossible to come to this Tzaddik and to draw near to the holiness except precisely through fierceness. As our Sages of blessed memory stated: "be fierce like a leopard." And as it is written: "You lead with Your fierceness to the splendid place of Your Holiness." [Exodus 15:13] Meaning through fierceness one may enter the holiness, for there are shepards on the side of evil and they also are famous personalities of the generation. And their main strength is through fierceness and they are like dogs in their fierceness. As in: "And the dogs of fierceness are the shepards" [Isaiah 56]. And: "the face of the generation is like the face of the dog." And therefore it is impossible to be saved from their domination except by having great fierceness to stand up against their evil fierceness. And similarly it is impossible to be saved from all the obstructers and antagonists and adversaries and to draw near to the Truth except through holy fierceness!
By revealing that everything happens through the Will of the Blessed One and that there is no "law of nature" at all, this creates awe and fear. For then people know that there is reward and punishment and that it is proper to fear the Blessed One. But when they fall to denial, as though everything happens through nature, awe and fear are not feasible at all. There are evil beasts that stamp and tear. And they are the scholars of nature, who want to show with their erroneous wisdom that everything happens through nature. As though there is no [Divine] Will, G-d forbid. And even that the awesome signs and wonders that Hashem Yisborach has done for us from Heaven all are through nature.
And these intellectuals are like evil beasts. And they stamp and tear many of our People, who also err after them and reason like them, as though everything is because of a "law of nature", G-d forbid. And these souls are like birds caught in a snare. Therefore whoever has pity on his soul must flee and save his soul from them, that his soul not be torn and stamped down by them, G-d forbid. Therefore, Heaven forbid even to look at those books that speak about philosophical inquiries, even books that giants of Israel have written. For there is no evil greater than this.